Darren Rowse

In the last week, Automattic (the team behind WordPress) released a nice little WordPress plugin bundle called Jetpack, which gives your self-hosted WordPress.org blog some of the functionality that was previously only available in the hosted WordPress.com-type blogs. This won’t appeal to all bloggers—especially not those who have been at ...more

Earlier in the week I observed a conversation between two Internet marketing bloggers on Twitter which grabbed my attention. The topic of conversation? Monetizing blogs by selling advertising directly to advertisers. Their conclusion on the topic? It’s a dead and obsolete method of making money. It was a fascinating conversation ...more

It’s been a couple of weeks since I returned home from my Tanzanian Blogging for Social Good trip. I reflected to a friend this morning that the trip changed me on many levels – both personally but also as I reflect upon how blogging and social media can be used ...more

“I don’t think I have what it takes to put myself ‘out there’ every day.” “Who would want to read what I have to say?” “Do you ever get used to the fact that strangers are reading what you write?” “I don’t think I have enough ego to do this!” ...more

Earlier today I had conversations with two bloggers about URL structures on their WordPress blogs, and I thought it might make an interesting community discussion. What is your blog’s URL structure? Here on ProBlogger, I use one that has a combination of the date and post title by default: https://problogger.com/5-sales-email-myths-that-are-costing-you-money/ ...more

Today I spent some time looking at my monthly income figures. I wasn’t quite sure how the stats would look for January and February. On one hand, after the record month I had back in December, I had a feeling things would look a little down by comparison. On the ...more

It seems like a long time ago that I invited readers of ProBlogger to come to Tanzania with me to experiment with seeing what social good we could do with social media and blogging. You can see the results of the week (in terms of the content created) at the ...more

Today I thought I’d compile a definitive list of must follow rules for bloggers that all successful blogs follow: I was going to stop at ten, but 11 has a much nicer ring to it, don’t you think? Plus point number 11 brings them all together nicely. This post was ...more

It’s been almost a week now since I left home in Australia to visit Tanzania to see if it was possible to use blogging to give a voice to those who may not have one—more specifically, to people living with disabilities in developing countries. I spoke a little about the ...more